Full Stack Software Engineer

Contract/Perm: 6 month Contract to Hire

Location: Mclean, VA (onsite 2x/week)

Work Authorization: US Citizen only (must be eligible for TS/SCI down the road)

This person could potentially support two products:

• Cyber Range – (Colosseum) is an internal cybersecurity platform that allows our internal teams to quickly create and manage cyber testing and training environments through automation. The goal is to make cyber ranges "software-defined," meaning teams can spin up realistic environments for security exercises, threat simulations, and testing without manually building the infrastructure each time.

• Software-Defined Everything (SDE) platform: SDE is a platform designed to automate how mission applications are provisioned, tested, and deployed across cloud, on-prem, and edge environments. The platform enables teams to model and simulate workloads, validate them, and then deploy them to target environments, including AI-enabled and edge computing systems.

Job Description:

We’re looking for a Software Development Engineer to join our client’s chief technology office engineering team—a dynamic group of innovators passionate about redefining the market through cutting-edge technology. You’ll focus on building our customer’s Software-Defined Everything (SDE) platform to enable Physical AI, Edge, Trusted Environments and other applications across mission domains to autonomously discover, provision, simulate and deploy these systems. You’ll be a self-starter, visionary, “10x-type” engineer who thrives in high-impact environments and be eager to build and operate always-on, secure, and scalable software services.

As a seasoned software engineer,, you’ll leverage the latest architectural approaches, open-source frameworks, and advanced tools to deliver comprehensive end-to-end solutions. You’ll impart your skills to the team, as they utilize industry-leading tools and techniques to create impactful software designs. Your role involves shaping a new product from the ground up with genuine autonomy and ownership. You will design, develop, deploy, and operate high-availability software products with robust monitoring, alerting, and fault-tolerant capabilities, integrating agentic AI at their core. You will also implement best practices for CI/CD deployments, telemetry, canaries, and automated testing to ensure the quality and reliability of our systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and operating production-grade full-stack applications in cloud environments such as AWS
• 5+ years of experience with Go, Java, Node.js, or C# development
• 3+ years of experience in distributed architectures using microservices or serverless in AWS, Google, or Azure Cloud
• 3+ years of experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and microservices
• Experience in CI/CD pipeline setup and maintenance
• Knowledge of authentication, authorization, and security best practices
• Experience using generative AI tools to accelerate development, automate coding tasks, and review AI-generated code
• Ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance
• Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of experience in software engineering, or 5+ years of experience in software engineering in lieu of a degree

Nice to Have Skills

• Experience writing source code for new applications or generating and enhancing code samples for existing applications
• Experience acquiring client requirements and resolving workflow problems through automation optimization
• Ability to work with automated testing tools to perform testing and maintenance
• TS/SCI clearance
• Master’s degree
• AWS Certifications, such as Cloud Practitioner, Developer Associate, or Solutions Architect Associate